Considering what Alex announced about the HUGE leap in content being released at ALS Scan - a complete photo set being released each day, while one complete photo set is being released per week at ALS Angels - they are really going to have to adjust the pricing.
They have already been sending out offers to past members of 1 month of ALS Angels when rejoining ALS Scan for 90 days. It will be interesting to see if they continue to develop ways to give ALS Angels memberships away as various types of bonuses.
More details on improvements - from Alex's blog 3/04/08:
We are in the process of changing our navigation and layout for the better; yes, we are going to move into the 21st century and get rid of those fucking frames. :) Please be patient with us during the next week or so while we get the navigation and links optimized and remove the frames from the member's section. Take another look at yesterday's Hailey Young photo update and you will see additional improvements to the navigation links from the way it looked before.
We are going to more than double the amount of pictures that we release in our members section. Here is the new ALS Scan release schedule. We are going to have new release updates seven (7) days a week. A new complete photoset will be released every other day; so for example, we will release a new photo set on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun, Tue, Thur, Sat, Mon, Wed... and so on. On days that we do not release a photoset we will release a brand new full scene video. We will continue to release videos 7 days a week until our complete archive has been remastered and is available online full time.
If it's a vid of a photo-shoot - and it really IS a vid of a photo-shoot, well, it makes sense for a professional photographer to have some things to say while they're working, so it doesn't bother me.
I can't remember an interview where a guy added anything - usually they visibly bore the shit out of the girl or just annoy her. Guys talking to set up vignettes usually talk way too much. And in both those situations, I'd much rather have a cute girl talking than some guy anyway.
Yeah, an unnattractive guy in the scene, especially when the girl is acting like he's such a stude, like in some of the Brazzers Network vids, can definitely be a distraction. A guy that's reasonably good looking and acting like he's really hot for the woman can definitely add to a scene.
Even a guy that's not so good looking or an old guy that's acting like he's hot for the girl is better than the type of porn where the guys are more concerned with looking in the mirror than they are fucking the girl - I just hate that shit!
I wind up screaming at my monitor - put your hands on her, asshole! Look at that fabulous body in front of you and you ain't doing shit!
It's rare that I would pay $30/month for a site, and to be perfectly honest, I'm not going to do it unless the site has some special live events with a porn babe that I'm totally in lust with or the site is know to me as having been around for years and having some real depth in their archives. I put 50+ in the poll, but the truth is that I would not be the first in the place unless they were going well beyond that.
For instance, The Black Alley was a site that I was itching to join when they first opened because not only were they providing the material for a new site, but they were announcing that they were going to be providing the archives of Asian4You, a site that had been around for years. I think they were a bit south of $30/month AND they were starting off with a lot of content - that's a site that's going to have me excited.
Some new site that's got just a few galleries and wants to charge $30/month is barking up the wrong tree if they think I'm going to be a customer of theirs.
The really great deals come when you become a member for any length of time and then leave. You'll get offers to come back that are just awesome. I re-joined when I got an offer for both Suze.net AND Suze.vid for $9.99/month.
I've had even lamer explanations for log-in problem from some other sites (Felicia Tang lost her password to be able to get into her own site for 2 weeks one time), but given the size of 21st Sextury, they really ought to be able to deal with this stuff. It's definitely a drag when you can't get into their sites. The whole point of joining is to be able to entry when we're wanting to. If they're not available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, then they become a whole lot less valuable.
The quantity of available vids is way beyond 100 - you might have missed the link that says "click here for more downloadable vids" - and that's just in the "new vids" section. Then they have a bonus up right now that's another 10 vids and the "Director's Best" section.
The vids section should continue to grow since they add a new one every day and no longer archive them - they haven't done so since April 2007, I believe.
I agree with you on this site - gorgeous girls beautifully photographed and video'd - all very high quality - being naughty as hell. I love this site.
For people that don't like the director's voice, it's easy to avoid the "photoshoot" vids, which are the ones where he talks, because he's working. He isn't going to get the great photos that he does without talking to the models and his assistants, so I'm fine with him yakking away. I've gotten used to his voice - he doesn't come off like a sleaze, like a lot of guys that yak during their vids.
I like sites that have live cam shows as part of the site, such as Danni.com, Karen Dreams, Adriana Sage, Jana Cova, Nautica Thorne's site or Jenna Haze's site, but I wouldn't pay for a web cam site where that was the whole thing, nor could I see paying $20 or more for a private cam show. The thing that I find amazing is that, despite the development of broadband and the high quality of the streaming that some sites have, few sites have cam shows that look good or work well. Misha's cam shows, for example, almost always look like crap. Phil Flash's used to look good, now they are also postage stamp sized crap.
The site with the best quality web cam shows I've seen lately are at Met Art - in Siberia! What the hell is up with that?
That's a good way for them to deal with the need they had to raise their prices to euros. It's still out of my league price-wise, at the moment, but it's a damned fine site.
Not to get political or anything, but to me the perverts of the world are the people that do evil shit, people that operate or support or protect death squads, the people that torture or force other people to commit torture - those are the perverts of the world. Child molesters, rapists, wife-beaters - they're all perverts in my mind.
Personally, I have found the level of engagement in posted photo sets has improved since I wrote my review a while ago - that was my pet peeve at the time and it seems to have been addressed - or my tastes changed toward what the site has been posting.
Either way, I'm on my second 4-month membership and I find new stuff every day that I enjoy - both pics and vids. I consider this to be quite a solid site.
I don't know when you were a member last, or why you're writing a "What happened to them?" comment if you haven't been a member in a while to see the quality of what they have been presenting, but for 8 months or so they stopped rotating off the vids, except for bonuses. I think their new models have been damned hot.
FYI - if you're a Jana fan, they're going to be releasing a huge bonus of her stuff, remastered to bring it up to today's standards, this week.
Snowdude - if you like "bald babe" scenes, try to find the Taking It To The Limit scene that Dru Berrymore did when she was a very hot lithe young blonde. She came in with long blonde hair, had a bunch of sexy babes dance for her, including Jill Kelly, looking her absolute best, and Channone - mmmm - then they stripped her, oiled her all up and shaved her bald all over and licked her luscious bod everywhere. Seeing gorgeous nude babes rubbing their bods over her oiled-up freshly shaven head was astoundingly sexy. One of the best kinky fantasy scenes of all time, in my book
In general, though, I'm in the "who cares so long as she looks hot" camp. Most bald women, including Belladonna, look like they're auditioning for the lead in the sequel to GI Jane.
I agree with asmith. I've actually had the opportunity. Living in the Bay Area, it's regarded as a pretty high-flying scene and there have been porn babes that have scheduled scenes to be done where they invited ordinary guys who would be able to fuck them with dildos and hands and such to be broadcast on European TV. I thought about it, but decided it really wasn't anything that I'd be comfortable with. I've gotten my picture taken with strip club dancers and porn stars and allowed those to be posted publicly but they and I were wearing clothes and looking reasonably respectable at the time - that's as far as I'm likely to go in real life.
In my fantasies, well that's a different story. And I suppose that's why, as Seymour Butts always said, you see the same 10 guys in every single porn flick ever made.
It's hard for me to see why Steve Lightspeed is thought of highly in any way other than having shown a whole LOT of people how they can turn a fast buck on cute girls not doing much. His photography is not all that good, his videography is even worse. His site design is rather abysmal and he doesn't seem to have much in the way of personal charm from anything I can tell from reading his posts at various forums over the years.
Other than that, I love the guy - at least he brought us Jordan, I suppose that's something.
Yeah, I agree that they use too much make-up - but it's a fairly flat look, which is a hell of a lot more natural than the Kabuki blurring shit that Twisty's has been doing to their models in their exclusive sets. I'm fucking furious about the shitty-ass shoots that Twisty's posted of Andie Valentino. I thought it was the photo shopping, but they claimed that it was the make-up and lighting - whatever it was, they must have thought she was the homeliest woman in the world, the way they covered her gorgeous face all up - pissed me off!
Would Vivid still exist if it weren't for the cable market? I rather doubt it. The director that was actually talented (Robbie D) went to work for Digital Playground and Vivid was left to try to cash in on the alt-porn thing - talk about Morbid - Ucccccchhhhh!!
Still the last time I had a one-month membership I thought that they had made some significant improvements to the site - larger, save-able pics and better-looking streaming vid than when I had a trial membership previously.
Still, Vivid's main skill has always been that no company has ever been better at wasting opportunities than Vivid has. They have had many of the hottest women ever to have done porn as their contract stars, including Chasey Lain, Racquel Darrian, Asia Carrera, Kobe Tai, Lanny Barbie, Jenteal, Sunny Leone and they have not done shit with them as compared to what would have been possible if they were contract stars for a company with some imagination.
The first time I remember seeing it, and one of the best was in Michael Ninn's New Wave Hookers 5 with Jeanna Fine & Anna Malle as the hottest dirty-talking spitting nympho nurses of all time. Spitting on cocks, spitting on pussies, it all fit in with their astounding over-the-top performances they gave (I can only imagine the amount of coke they seemed to have snorted before those scenes).
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